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POLICY
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Chinese Wealth Management Crisis: Historical Pattern Repeats
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As I’ve remarked previously on Chinese “wealth management” (which does not mean what it typically means in English usage), we have seen this movie before. (It ends badly.)
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Government Restricts User Data Deletion Rights for AI Service
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I would be dumbfounded if they have not received at least one letter. It probably rhymed with "Most of your customers can decide to offboard with you and delete all their data with an API call. This one can't anymore. Sincerely, Your Friends In Government"
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Binance AWS regulatory incentives Big Tech leverage
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A further aside: I was a bit surprised when I learned that Binance was on AWS, given my mental model for who can send Amazon / subsidiaries a strongly worded letter. Then I realized, from the perspective of the letter center, that is *extremely* incentive compatible, isn't it.
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Big Tech Lawyers Defend Against Excessive Government Data Requests
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Asidee: it is broadly underappreciated by customers of cloud services that one of the things you buy from AppAmaGooBookSoft is that their lawyers, and not your lawyers, will push back on the United States federal government when it requests things those lawyers find excessive.
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US Judge Orders Microsoft to Hand Over EU-Stored Data
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Cite: https://
computerweekly.com/news/224021965
6/Cloud-privacy-fears-loom-as-US-judge-asks-Microsoft-to-hand-over-data-held-in-Dublin
… I do not think this is the only time I've seen this argument, but cannot remember which Crypto Shenanigans indictment it was in. But I remember being mildly surprised because a) Microsoft and b) well-regarded EU nation getting manhandled by U.S. -
US jurisdiction over Microsoft European infrastructure raises regulatory concerns
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A fascinating tangent, right! The U.S. has previously asserted jurisdiction over, minimally, workloads in Microsoft infrastructure physically located in Europe, basically entirely on the "Come on, you're Microsoft, give us what we want" theory. Will try to come up with cite.
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Kids Online Safety Act Debates: Stanford Scholars Explain
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The Kids Online Safety Act still stands at a crossroad. Stanford scholars @JCPerrino and @kingjen explain the debates around the contentious legislation in an opinion piece for @techpolicypress
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Public Fear and Government Response to AI Risks
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The public is being scared by doomers relayed by some media.
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Binance CZ Crypto Compliance Strategy Under Scrutiny
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Today in Bits about Money: an in-depth explanation of the shorthand that I've used for a few years about crypto jurisdictional gamesmanship. Binance and CZ, major practitioners of the Bond villain compliance strategy, are having a bit of a rough week.